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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
The Domino Sugar Plant is awesome. IMO there's nothing significant or special about the Eagle building at all other than it used to be a recognizable feature of LIC and the foot of the Queensboro Bridge. I just dont think if it was taken down and replaced with a beautiful building people would be lamenting the loss of some mundane old concrete warehouse and I don't think the neighborhood, which is already unrecognizable from just ten years ago, would be any more removed from its industrial past just because it made way for a much better usage of that site.
But hey, opinions vary, and you are entitled to yours.
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The 4+ story warehouses in LIC are cool, very big, gotham. Not noteworthy at all but they're easy enough to reuse because they are so simple. And it's also not like we've gotten countless ground up new construction in the last 5 years in LIC, most of it unremarkable. This is a good win win reuse on this project. The eagle lofts also did a good job on their adaptive reuse.
To an earlier point you made- there is something a little unjust that this kind of stuff is saved and real quality architecture in the city is knocked down instead of getting this treatment. Yet it is precisely because these buildings are simple and solid and dumb that they make for projects that pencil out. The wonderful buildings in the city we should be reusing are much more expensive to readapt.